29-06-2016 19:23 via theverge.com

NASA’s Hubble celebrates Fourth of July early with galactic explosions

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a "firework" large enough to engulf ourplanet. The birth of a cluster of star in galaxy Kiso 6359 looks like a projectile from a Roman Candle, soaring through the night sky.
NASA’s page includes a helpful from Debra Elmegreen, a lead researcher at Vassar College, that gives the stars some galactic context:"I think Kiso 5639 is a beautiful, up-close example of what must have been common long ago. The current thinking is that galaxies in the early
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